Quidax, the popular Nigerian crypto exchange, has announced its plans to launch an exchange token, $QDX, and expand its offerings to become the home of Binance Smart Chain (BSC) BEP20 tokens.

Quidax has partnered with the fast-growing JulSwap, a leading BSC decentralized exchange, to launch the QDX token on 17th May, 2021 through the JulPad launchpad.

Quidax launched in 2018 and has grown to have a customer base of over 400, 000 as of May 2021 with over $3.2 billion in transactions processed since inception.

https://bitcoinke.io/2021/05/quidax-token-coming-soon/

The Solana blockchain protocol hackathon is here with us and includes over $1 million in prizes and seed funding to kickstart projects looking to build on the Solana decentralized protocol.

The hackathon is open to anyone with an internet connection and has reserved a $25, 000 prize pool for projects on the African continent.

The African chapter is supported by Blockchain Nigeria and Bundle Africa among other players.

See details below:
https://bitcoinke.io/2021/05/introducing-solana-season-hackathon/

Meet Zuck's #Bitcoin and Max

Mark Zuckerberg, the Co-founder of Facebook has riled excitement across the crypto community after taking to social media to announce two of his pet goats have been named “Bitcoin” and “Max.”

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UPDATE:

We have updated the Saturday DeFi class from 2.00PM to 11.00AM

See details here:

* TOPIC: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION INTO DeFi
* DATE: 15 MAY 2021
* TIME: 11.00 AM, EAT
* SIGNUP: https://bit.ly/BitKE-Catapult-51

Hungary to reduce tax on cryptocurrency earnings to 15% from 30.5% currently, Finance Minister Mihaly Varga said in a Facebook post.

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The Brooker Group says it has purchased 122 #Bitcoin in Q1 of 2021 for around $6.6 million.

The firm also says it aims to invest $48 million in crypto and DeFi projects including Ethereum, Binance, Uniswap, Enjin, Filecoin etc.

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The Central Bank of Bahrain is collaborating with JP Morgan & Bank ABC in a pilot scheme to introduce instantaneous cross border payment solution leveraging a digital currency.
The pilot will transfer funds to and from Bahrain in US-Dollars without holding funds

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See full thread: https://twitter.com/BitcoinKE/status/1392340442637901824

As the Solana Season continues to heat up, the highly anticipated SolStarter IDO launchpad has announced its Whitelisting for its native token, the $SOS.

SolStarter seeks to solve the problem of access for early investment in projects on DeFi for the average retail investor by allow token holders a guaranteed allocation in the initial distribution offering (IDO) for participating projects.


1% of the total supply (1 million $SOS tokens) will be airdropped to all addresses to share the tokens evenly.

Learn how to participate here: https://bitcoinke.io/2021/05/introducing-solstarter/

Solanium, a decentralized platform on the Solana blockchain, is among the trendy projects making waves amidst the ongoing Solana Season frenzy.

The platform, which seeks to launch 3 services on the Solana , fronts a sleek look and feel that it hopes will help onboard new users onto the Solana protocol.

All early supporters will receive a guaranteed airdrop where 1 million $SLIM tokens will be distributed across all participants.

See details below on how to get started:
https://bitcoinke.io/2021/05/introducing-solanium/

[VIDEO BYTES WITH JANET]

In this video, Janet discusses the following:

- Visa brings USDC stablecoin to Kenya
- Bank of England warns about crypto risks
- Citi bank looking to enter the crypto space

Here is the 2-min clip: https://youtu.be/mVoldbar5gk (Subscribe to keep updated on latest news on video)

MoneyGram to allow customers to buy and sell Bitcoin for cash at thousands of brick-and-mortar locations in the U.S.

MoneyGram has teamed up with bitcoin exchange and ATM operator CoinMe on the feature.

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“I recommend that Uniswap
and the $UNI token step in and provide such an oracle (eg. modeled after the Augur or UMA design), specialized to providing price data that’s robust and extremely costly to manipulate and attack.” - Vitalik Buterin, Founder, Ethereum

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Indonesia, SouthEast Asia's biggest econmy, is considering a plan to tax the trading of cryptos after a surge in popularity among local investors.

Indonesia bans the use of crypto as a payment instrument, but allows it to be traded as a commodity

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The first fully-fitted blockchain hub, with a standard crypto forensic investigation lab in West Africa, has launched in Abuja, Nigeria.

Dubbed Convexity Hub, the lab seeks to provide regulators with an expert-based channel for active government participation into the blockchain and crypto ecosystem in Nigeria amid the regulatory stand that looks at crypto as an easy tool that facilitates dark web illicit activities.

Check out this exclusive BitKE interview as the CEO, Deji, discusses the hub and what it means for the blockchain and crypto space in Nigeria:

https://bitcoinke.io/2021/05/introducing-convexity-hub/